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RICHMOND, Ky. - Southeast Missouri (6-14, 1-1) ended a seven-game losing streak and picked up its first road victory of the season when it split a doubleheader with Eastern Kentucky (12-12, 2-2) Saturday afternoon at Gertrude Hood Field. The Redhawks dropped game one, 5-1, but bounced back to win the nightcap, 5-3.

Southeast Missouri 5, Eastern Kentucky 3

A five-run fourth inning was the difference in Southeast Missouri's 5-3 victory in game two.

Southeast trailed, 2-0, before scoring five runs on four hits to take a three-run lead. The Redhawks pushed across all of their runs with two outs. Chelsea Smith reached on a one-out double to left and went to third when Kelsey Gass flied out to right center. Nicole Deering followed with a double down the left field line and Smith scored. Savannah Carpenter walked and Jamie Woodworth was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Haylee Krack then singled home both Deering and and Carpenter. Leah Duffe knocked in pinch-runner KC Saxe and Krack to give Southeast a 5-2 advantage.

Kayla Joyce's home run made it a 5-3 game in the fifth, but that was as close as the Colonels would get.

Keaira Schilling (2-5) pitched five innings and allowed two earned runs to notch the win.

Shaylon Robb (0-5) remained winless this season after giving up seven hits and five runs in 3.2 innings.

Southeast pounded out eight hits. Carpenter and Woodworth went 2-for-3 to pave the way. Four others, including Haylee Krack, Leah Duffe, Smith and Deering followed with a hit.

Eastern Kentucky 5, Southeast Missouri 1

Leanna Pittsenbarger recorded 13 strikeouts and tossed six scoreless innings to lead Eastern Kentucky to a 5-1 win in the first game. Pittsenbarger, who leads the OVC in strikeouts, pitched her 10th complete game and improved to 9-6 on the season.

The Colonels staked Pittsenbarger to a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning. Sarah Fobbs delivered a leadoff homer run to left field and Lauren Mitchell followed with a single. Mitchell later scored on a throwing error and Krislyn Campos ripped  two-out RBI-single to cap the rally.

Fobbs homered again with two away in the third, this time to right center, as EKU pulled ahead, 4-0.

The Colonels then tacked on one more run when Nicole Heitz doubled and touched home on a single by Christina Ciolek in the bottom of the fourth.

Southeast, after going scoreless for six innings, scored its only run of the game on a solo home run by Rachael Duncan in the seventh.

Hannah Durham (2-4) was credited with the loss after giving up six hits and three runs in 1.2 innings. Durham also struck out two and faced 11 hitters. Freshmen Aubrey Denno and Keaira Schilling pitched the rest of the way. Denno scattered three hits and allowed two runs in 1.1 innings, while Schilling struck out two and gave up two hits in three frames.

EKU outhit Southeast, 11-4, with Campos, Ciolek, Fobbs and Heitz contributing two hits each. The Colonels had three extra-base hits, including a pair of home runs by Fobbs.

Woodworth, Duncan, Gass and Smith had one hit apiece for the Redhawks.

Southeast heads to Morehead State for an 11 a.m., CT, doubleheader Sunday.